Six republics of the North Caucasus were among the outsiders of the rating of Russian regions in terms of unemployment, Rosstat data exerts.

Ingushetia closes the list of 85 regions (including the annexed Crimea and Sevastopol), wherein June-August 2021 unemployment was 30.2%, and the average time to find a job was 7.2 months.

Dagestan is in 84th place: the unemployment rate there is more than two times lower, 14.9%, but it takes 7.8 months on average to find a job.

North Ossetia, Karachay-Cherkessia, Chechnya and Kabardino-Balkaria were ranked 82nd, 81st, 80th and 78th, respectively, with unemployment rates ranging from 13.2% to 10.3%. Residents of Karachay-Cherkessia must look for work the longest - an average of 13.2 months.

At the same time, in all these regions, the unemployment rate decreased compared to the previous year, most of all - in Chechnya (by 8.9 percentage points).

The national average unemployment rate was 4.6%, and the lowest level was recorded in St. Petersburg - 1.9%.

The regions of the North Caucasus and the South of Russia regularly find themselves among outsiders in economic ratings.